Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities.(Review) (book review)

Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities. By Mary S. Pardo. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998. 282p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

The topic of Chicana/Mexican American feminism and political activism is not new, but in the past ten years a host of important contributions have been made to this field. Studies ranging from the history of 1940s Americanization programs that explicitly targeted young Mexican American women, to the formation of Chicana feminist thought in the 1960s, to more contemporary accounts of ...

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